Duty station: Bonn Germany

About UNAIDS:
Serving Countries and Communities to End Inequalities and AIDS.

We, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, lead the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. By placing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to reduction of inequalities at the heart of our work, we lead the global response to AIDS by: (i) maximizing equitable and equal access to HIV services, (ii) breaking down barriers to achieving HIV outcomes, and (iii) integrating efficient HIV responses into wider health and protection systems.

We are committed to creating an equal, safe and empowering workplace culture where all people in all their diversity thrive. We live our values of Commitment to the AIDS Response, Integrity and Respect for Diversity. You can access the full UNAIDS Competency Framework at www.unaids.org.MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT:
The Regional Support Team for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (RST EECA) provides leadership and coordinates support for an expanded UN system response to ending the AIDS epidemic at regional and country level. It steers, promotes and supports regional and national partners and the UN system towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Using an equity and equality lens as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the RST EECA promotes effective use of strategic information of the epidemic trends and the status of its response and provides technical leadership on people-centered HIV prevention and response in the region focused on key populations and locations most at risk.

The Equality and Rights for All Practice delivers on the UNAIDS Secretariat’s goals of reducing inequalities. This specifically refers to ensuring that the HIV response is gender-transformative, rights-based and people-focused in a manner that is community-led, inclusive and progresses societal enablers. The Practice also delivers on the organizational agenda to remove human rights barriers and intersecting gender inequalities. It does that by developing and sharing policies, guidance, research and tools that support legal, policy and social norm change; by advocating for a greater political commitment; and by convening communities of practice and leveraging existing and new partnerships to continuously identify and respond to the inequalities driving the HIV epidemic.Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position:
Within the matrix management reporting structure of the RST EECA and the Equality and Rights for All Practice, the Officer, Youth and Gender Equality focuses on a set of deliverables that are aligned with UNAIDS institutional positions and strategic directions with international norms and standards on gender equality, the epidemic trajectory, the social norms and the needs in the region. This post includes a focus on gender inequalities, women and girls access to services, rights of adolescents and young key populations, and youth leadership customized to respond to the regional and subregional contexts and the epidemic.

The Officer, Youth and Gender Equality is responsible for contributing to the practice area objectives in the RST and with UNAIDS partners and counterparts, coordinating specialist expertise and contributing to the overall coordination of the UNAIDS response in the functional areas described below.

He /she has the following key responsibilities:

1) Provision of technical advice
– Drives the prioritization agenda in the region on gender equality and youth engagement issues. Supports country offices in the region via the provision of on-call support, sharing of information, guidance, tools and resources that help: strengthen and diversify youth community led responses and transform harmful gender norms.
– Advises on demand creation for the inclusion in National AIDS plans of programmatic interventions addressing the integration and scaling up of youth community-led responses and to advance gender equality and youth engagement.
– Together with colleagues in the global Equality and Rights for All Practice, RST and other partners, works towards maximizing the potential of resources mobilization opportunities and bilateral aid available at regional and national level to broker aligned, harmonized resources to address key youth led communities’ priorities, and provide knowledge and other resources for young key populations, youth led networks and organizations, including for community led responses.
– Stays abreast of current/hot issues and tensions to young key populations, youth communities, including young women and provides direct support to these populations during human rights crises.
– Develops appropriate scorecards and dashboards to monitor cross-country and join UN performance in the region on selected gender and youth performance indicators.

2) Partnerships and collaboration
– Identifies needs, plans, coordinates, implements and evaluates regional capacity building activities for UNAIDS staff, regional and national communities and civil society counterparts and others as required. This particularly refers to organizing regional communities of practice related to gender, youth communities, and young leaders in the HIV response and participating as required in any relevant regional and global communities of practice.
– Builds, fosters and expands strategic alliances with youth communities to support tracking and monitoring government accountability for the attainment of HIV global objectives and commitments including resources made available to different stakeholder groups in the governmental and non-governmental sectors.
– Supports and strengthens alliances between PLHIV networks, youth, young women led and young key population networks and organizations, HIV-related civil society organizations, and social justice movements at regional level, including those working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and youth engagement as part of the HIV response.
– Provides support to cosponsors and other partners to ensure that: key considerations on how advances in gender equality, youth communities and youth engagement affect the HIV response and community priorities are integrated into relevant AIDS response and broader plans, programmes, budgets, and initiatives.
– Facilitates multi-country proposals development and resource mobilization for gender and youth initiatives.

3) Advocacy and knowledge management
– Provides guidance, substantive inputs and quality control on gender equality advocacy strategies, materials and dissemination tools to internal and external knowledge functions.
– Identifies and promotes good practices from within the region and from other regions to benefit the response in countries of the region, in other regions or globally, through appropriate representation of UNAIDS positions on gender equality, youth community engagement and leadership.
– Liaises with the Global Fund, PEPFAR and other partners to facilitate regional learning on gender, youth and young key populations.

4) Gender equality
– Works on the positioning of gender equality at the centre of UNAIDS efforts to implement the global AIDS strategy in the region, emphasizing gender transformative young women / youth/ young key populations / young people living with HIV-led interventions at scale.
– Establishes or supports at the regional or country-level effective leadership, mentorship and capacity building of networks of youth, young women and young key populations that include young women living with HIV, young women who use drugs, female sex workers and transgender women and adolescent girls and young women, for effective representation and advocacy on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights.
– Analyzes the regional HIV epidemic, context and response from a gender perspective, as well as relevant data on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Monitors trends and opportunities across the region and provides on-call support to countries to advocate, build political commitment and mobilize resources. influencing to build political commitment and mobilize resources for the HIV response, as well as to enable South-South learning and collaboration.
– Supports the completion and implementation of gender assessments to ensured development and implementation.
– Organizes or participates in communities of practice on gender equality issues, young women-led responses, for joint coordination, information sharing, quality assurance, capacity building and mutual support.

5) Youth-specific focus
– Provides substantive support to countries in coordinating their youth activities by leading, facilitating and promoting efforts to scale up, strengthening and funding of the HIV response by and for young people.
– Provides advice to and engages with regional mechanisms or country-level governments, cosponsors, community led, women-led, and youth-led organizations and networks, on issues related to:
i. youth leadership and engagement;
ii. capacity building and skills development;
iii. investment in youth leadership and partnerships;
iv. comprehensive sexuality education;
v. education and social protection policies and programmes for young people;
vi. removal of policy, legal and societal barriers for adolescents to access services, including age of consent laws and policies;
vii. integration of services;
viii. generation, analysis and use of data for both youth specific and youth responsive programming and advocacy; and
ix. the overall expansion of youth-led responses.
– Supports the establishment of a culture of youth inclusion within UNAIDS and adoption of ‘youth as asset’ perspective including via strengthening and quality assuring of internship and other youth support programmes.

Performs other duties as required.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Education:
Essential:
Advanced university degree at Master´s level or equivalent in Social Sciences, Public Health, Human Rights, Public Policy or Administration, Law, Gender or Women’s Studies, or another field related to the responsibilities. For internal candidates a first university degree and 4 years of relevant experience will be considered as equivalentCompetencies:
UNAIDS Values
1. Commitment to the AIDS response
2. Integrity
3. Respect for diversity

Core competencies
1. Working in teams
2. Communicating with impact
3. Applying expertise
4. Delivering results
5. Driving change and innovation
6. Being accountable

Managerial competencies:
1. Leading Teams
2. Building Relationships and Networks
3. Developing and Empowering Others
4. Managing Performance and Resources
5. Vision and Strategic Thinking
6. Exercising Sound JudgementExperience:
Essential:
At least 2 years of experience in programming, project management or advocacy, related to HIV or health, in one or more of the following areas: young key populations, gender equality and human rights as related to young people, and youth engagement in two or more countries or at the regional or international levels. Demonstrated knowledge and sound understanding of young people’s networks and movements in the region and globally and leadership development and capacity building among young people.

Desirable:
Experience working within a youth network, particularly networks of young people living with HIV, young key populations, or young women and girls in the HIV or health response. Experience in programme, project, or initiative-based collaboration with United Nations organizations and regional or international civil society institutions. Demonstrated knowledge and sound understanding of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV.Languages:
Essential: Proficiency in English and Russian.Additional Information:
Positions at the international professional category within UNAIDS will be subject to the Organization’s Mobility Policy. The above-mentioned position is a rotational position and its standard duration of assignment is linked to the ICSC hardship classification of the duty station.

Furthermore, only online applications will be accepted.

Other similar positions at the same level may be filled from this vacancy notice.Annual salary: (Net of tax)
USD 50,377 at single rate
Applicants will be required to take a test. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.
Applications from people living with HIV are particularly welcome. Applications from women and from nationals of non- and under-represented member states are particularly encouraged.
Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to the Staff Regulations and Rules of the World Health Organization (WHO) adjusted, as necessary, to take into account the particular operational needs of UNAIDS, and any subsequent amendments.

Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
Note: The paramount consideration in the appointment, transfer or promotion of staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity. The medical criterion for recruitment is fitness to work in the particular post. The United Nations HIV/AIDS Personnel Policy clearly stipulates that no staff and/or potential candidates shall be discriminated against on the basis of real or perceived HIV status. HIV infection, in itself, does not constitute lack of fitness to work. There is no obligation to disclose HIV-related personal information.
Online applications are strongly encouraged to enable UNAIDS to store your profile in a permanent database. Please visit UNAIDS’s e-Recruitment website at: https://erecruit.unaids.org. The system provides instructions for online application procedures.All applicants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well before the deadline stated in the vacancy announcement.